Dumbing Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,… — Pat Condell
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but it is actually… — Stephen Batchelor
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and… — Steven Johnson
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving… — Diane Paulus
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant… — Mark Lilla
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing… — David Chipperfield
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not… — Malcolm Turnbull
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. — Sam Neill
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America… — Gary Ackerman
There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive. — Danica McKellar
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. — Stephen Sondheim
Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really… — Denis Dutton
I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at… — Richard Dawkins
I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it… — John Taylor Gatto
I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls… — Danica McKellar

Who Wrote These Dumbing Quotes

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